If weeds are growing there  better than other places on the property, I would give it a try.
I cant plant on my system because it is still active, but the grass grows 2X faster over that drain field
than elsewhere on the property.

Scraping the bark on the scion wood until you see the green underneath is what you want to do.
Bark grafts is the only one I use for persimmon, 100% success. The bark must be slipping for this to work well,
so rootstock needs to be actively growing.

Planting large trees does give fast results-I had planted some big trees at my old house -those trees produced a good crop the first year.  Excalibur has some beautiful big big trees for sale- they plant them also.   
I can't afford to purchase the large trees anymore- they are quite expensive.

In my experience, you will get a better tree in the long run by planting small trees and letting the root system establish in your soil.

Pictures are from a Chinese community market in Brooklyn NY.  I don't know the name of the regular ones they have, but they also have a Malaysian tag.
I have never tasted fresh. Frozen is good to me. A few years back I brought home a froze durian that was rotten. It was in summer, and may have been refrozen after been thawed in the summer sun. Now I only buy in winter. Have not had a bad one since, but cant bring in the house. If they still have them in 2 weeks, I will take a chance.

Found D-24 and Black Thorn  in NYC today. The D-24 looked to be about 4 lbs, and the Black Thorn about 2.
At $5 it seamed a bit pricy, since regular is $2. Wanted to get one of each, but my wife reminded of the ban on Durian in the house implemented a few years back.
Since it is 24F and windy today, I cant eat outside either.  Maybe in a couple of weeks when the weather warms a bit.
I know taste is subjective, but is the taste that much better to charge 2.5X as much? The Black Thorn dose not look like it has 8oz of flesh.

Hi Mike, that looks just like the one we have here that i'm calling purple, that also has a very good taste.

Those looked like the ones I ate as a kid in Trinidad. There were about 5 or 6 trees growing wild near a stream. The flesh was stained purple near the skin, with some purple veins running to the seed. Tasted much better than the "improved" ones people were growing in their yard.

There is an old saying that goes like this:
Sand in clay is money thrown away. Clay in sand is money in the hand.
Organic matter is the only way to economically improve clay soil.  Don't put it  in the planting hole. If you have clay soil, water will move into the less dense soil and rot the roots.  You might consider planting on a mound.  Here is one nursery's take, and one from the university of Florida.
http://www.wellsmedinanursery.com/nursery-q13554-c13945-shrubs__trees_planting.aspx
 http://leon.ifas.ufl.edu/News_Columns/2011/072811SoilAmendments.pdf

  Good reading, both of them. Thanks.

Come on Sheehan, be real, it sure could be a double graft    By the looks of it, i'd say it may even be a triple graft...though I could not think in my wildest dreams why anyone would "double/triple graft" a mango or any other tree.

As for the VP, "hard animal to tame" is not only an understatement but near impossible.  Unless you keep chopping the tree and basically destroying the reason to have one, it will get large.  The real question is how large...

Don't know if this tree was double grafted or not, but apples are commonly double grafted (m9/111) is popular. I did a few last year. Dolgo crab roots/M7 in the middle/variety I want.
This is done when you want the benefits of the roots in the rootstock, but not the vigor. A dwarfing interstem is put in the middle.

For all the grafting that I do, including hard wood like persimmon. For bark grafting, I lift with the back edge of a pocket knife.

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I just purchased a 10'x300' roll of PRO-70 Frost Cloth http://obcnw.com/pro7020ozpersqyd.aspx

Its supposed to provide about 6-8 degrees of protection in single layer and can be doubled for added protection.  I got the idea at the Mounts fall plant sale from a Heliconia vendor that was there.  He grows Heliconia about an hour north of me with great success using this product.  I have recently added about a dozen varieties of Heliconia along with quite a few additional not-so subtropicals.

With the case of staples I paid just under three hundred dollars.

I still plant to erect my small lighted PVC greenhouses for my inground smaller tropicals.

Just as we say goodbye to Tropical Storms we have winter to deal with! I hate this time of year, so much less to do in the yard between cold fronts!

  I use a similar fabric on peppers and tomatoes, and get an additional 2 weeks of growing time in the spring, and 3 weeks in the fall. It should work well for you. No need to remove on a warm day, not sure about a hot day.

  You are all welcome. For the last 5 years, I have been getting about 32 yards of mill sawdust (1/4inch wood chips) every year.
It has a little bit of horse manure mixed in. Its free, but I have it delivered which cost $20. This stuff works wonders when spread on top of the soil. The first year, I made the mistake of tilling it into the soil, and it sucked up the nitrogen. Leaves of plants turned yellow. Spread about 6 inch thick around my veggies, and never water all summer, which is hot and dry where I am. I spread to the drip line under my fruit trees, and never water.